Menendez brothers' claims of abuse supported by newly discovered letter, new allegation The petition cites new evidence that bolsters the brothers' claims that they were sexually abused by their father jose menendez. A judge rejected petitions by erik and lyle menendez to overturn their convictions, ruling that evidence the brothers were sexually abused by their father wouldn’t have prevented them from being. Why the menendez brothers’ allegations of sexual abuse are being taken seriously more than three decades after they killed their parents update The california department of corrections announced on may 19 that a parole hearing set for june 13 had been postponed to aug Erik and lyle menendez were resentenced to 50 years to life in prison on may 13.
Los angeles county district attorney george gascón is reviewing new evidence that the brothers, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing their parents in 1989, were molested by their father
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